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prof. Mgr. Jan Chovanec, Ph.D.

Department vice-head, Department of English and American Studies

correspondence Address:
Arna Nováka 1/1, 602 00 Brno

office: bldg. G/G.310
Gorkého 57/7
602 00 Brno

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Finished procedures

Habilitation procedures
Applicant's name at procedure initiation	Mgr. Jan Chovanec, Ph.D.
Applicant's workplace at procedure initiation	Faculty of Arts
Procedure field	Linguistics of Concrete Languages (Germanic Languages)
Faculty implementing procedure	Faculty of Arts
Procedure status	appointment to associate professor
Procedure initiation date	27 Oct 2015
Procedure conclusion date	1 Mar 2017
Habilitation thesis (publicly available part)	The Discourse of Online Sportscasting: Constructing Meaning and Interaction in Live Text Commentary Grounds for withholding the publication license of the habilitation thesis: The grounds for withholding the publication license of the habilitation thesis or its part are available in Czech only.
Habilitation thesis reviewers	prof. PhDr. Aleš Klégr () Prof. Greg Myers () Prof. Hans Sauer ()
Reviewers' thesis reports	Report 1 \| Report 2 \| Report 3
Public lecture	23 Feb 2016 \| Lecture Evaluation
habilitation board
Chair	prof. PhDr. Ludmila Urbanová, CSc. ()
Members	prof. PhDr. Aleš Klégr () prof. PhDr. Jarmila Tárnyiková, CSc. () doc. PhDr. Naděžda Kudrnáčová, CSc. (Masaryk University) doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc. ()
Board decision	Board Decision
Faculty scientific board session date	8 Dec 2016

Professorship procedures
Applicant's name at procedure initiation	doc. Mgr. Jan Chovanec, Ph.D.
Applicant's workplace at procedure initiation	Faculty of Arts
Procedure field	Linguistics of Concrete Languages (Germanic Languages)
Faculty implementing procedure	Faculty of Arts
Procedure status	appointment to professor
Procedure initiation date	25 May 2020
Procedure conclusion date	15 Dec 2021
Public lecture	26 Jan 2021 \| Lecture Evaluation
Evaluation board
Chair	prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc. (Faculty of Arts MU)
Members	Univ.-Prof. Dr. Helmut Gruber (University of Vienna) prof. PhDr. Aleš Klégr (Charles University) Prof. Dr. Josef Schmied (Chemnitz University of Technology) prof. PhDr. Jarmila Tárnyiková, CSc. (Palacký University Olomouc)
Board decision	Board Decision
Faculty scientific board session date	8 Apr 2021
Masaryk University Scientific Board session date	5 Oct 2021